Zend Technologies has released the first public beta of Zend Core 2.0, the second generation of the company's distribution of PHP 5. This version is the first from the company to implement new Windows Server compatibility features that Zend and Microsoft announced in late October.
Software developers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are now using UML modeling tools from IBM to develop the systems that will operate the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, IBM disclosed on Friday.
Application integration is a major IT headache, according to Aberdeen Group, consuming about 40 percent of the typical IT budget. With business processes spread across multiple IT applications, service-oriented architecture can be an appealing solution to integrating applications.
Salesforce.com released a developer preview version of its Apex Code programming language this week, and announced that it has made its Apex on-demand platform generally available.
CIOs expect to increase their IT staff levels at the fastest rate since 2001.
Altiris announced it is shipping Wise Installation Studio 7.0, an updated tool designed for creating installations for Windows Vista, 64-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Mobile 5 devices.
TIBCO Software is the first corporate sponsor of Direct Web Remoting, an open-source Java communications library, designed for Web developers employing the AJAX techniques.
IBM on Monday announced it plans to open a number of SOA Leadership Centers around the world.
AutomatedQA, the Las Vegas-based testing-tools maker, has upgraded its flagship TestComplete product to include support for Windows Vista applications. The newly released TestComplete 5 also supports Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 Web testing.
What’s at stake in the fiercely contested application server race? Plenty, according to market watcher IDC, which has IBM Corp., BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., and a host of other vendors vying for their share of a surging application server market segment. The prize, IDC says, is a doozy: annual revenues of $4.5 billion—and counting.
The salesforce.com AppStore announcement grabbed plenty of headlines just before the holidays. Salesforce.com's chief exec Marc Benioff says he wants his company to become "the iTunes of on-demand apps." The company's soon-to-launch AppStore is designed to allow customers to browse, test, and purchase AppExchange software from third-party developers.
Microsoft began shipping the release candidate for Virtual PC 2007 last week, putting the virtualization environment on track for final shipment
in the first quarter as expected.
BlackPearl is a major upgrade of the K2.net 2003 Enterprise Workflow Platform, which includes a K2.net Studio design environment, Server, Workspace, and Service Manager. The new platform allows users to design, build and edit processes in several environments including Microsoft Visio 2007, a browser-based interface, SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio 2005.
After shipping the first release candidate, or RC1, of SQL Server 2005 Compact
Edition in mid-November, Microsoft quietly began shipping RC1 of the product's
documentation, which has been updated to reflect the database's recent renaming,
in late December.
On December 22, webMethods shipped version 7.0 of its flagship Fabric suite. The 7.0 release followed a year of acquisitions as the company put key technology in place for its BPM/SOA platform.
While Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 are virtually out the door, Microsoft continues its march towards updating its server products to match.
Google is releasing its Java software development framework as open source software under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.
Microsoft released a Service Pack update and an SP beta for its Visual Studio 2005 IDE. The Visual Studio 2005 SP1, and the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista beta both went live on Friday on Microsoft's Visual Studio Developer Center Web site.
Microsoft and HP announced Wednesday a three-year $300 million deal to collaborate in selling hardware, software and services to their joint customers.
Microsoft is shipping Robotics Studio 1.0, a development environment for creating robotic software that runs on a variety of hardware platforms. In addition, the company introduced a third-party partner program featuring Robotics Studio-enabled applications, services and robots from independent software vendors, service providers, hardware component vendors and robot manufacturers.